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TURBOS THE HISTORY |
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You know where they're going but where did they come from? | |
| 1896 | Rudolf Diesel introduces his design for the mechanical supercharger. | |
| 1905 | The Swiss engineer Dr Alfred J Buchi is granted the first patent for a practical turbocharger - a supercharger driven by exhaust gases. | |
| 1915 | As chief Engineer of Sulzer Brothers research department, Dr Buchi proposes the first prototype of a turbocharged diesel engine - but it wasn't efficient enough to maintain an adequate boost pressure. | |
| 1914-18 | A limited number of turbocharger find their way onto world War 1 aircraft engines. | |
| 1920 | After a period of development by General Electric, a turbocharger is fitted to a liberty engine which takes a Lepere bi-plane to a new altitude record of 33,113 feet in 1920. Mercedes and Fiat pioneer the use of motor car turbo's. | |
| 1923 | Brown Boveri begin producing turbochargers on a regular production basis. |  |
| 1925 | Buchi introduces his separately manifolded 'pulse system' - still in widespread use today. | |
| 1930 | During the 1930s at the first in Europe then later in USA, turbo's are becoming more and more popular, and in 1936 J.C. Garrett forms Garrett Corporation. | |
| 1939-45 | The second World War sees thousands of general Electric developed turbo's fitted to allied warplanes. Garrett supplied the charge-air cooler (aftercooler) for the general Electric turbocharger on the Pratt and Whitney engined B-17. | |
| 1950 | The increasing availability of special materials to withstand very high temperatures gives another boost to turbocharger development in the early years of the decade. | |
| 1952 | The first turbocharged diesel engined racing car enters the Indianapolis 500. | |
| 1957 | Turbo powered diesel truck engined make their first appearance (today, virtually 100% of heavy trucks have turbo diesels!)Turbo powered diesel truck engined make their first appearance (today, virtually 100% of heavy trucks have turbo diesels!) | |
| 1962 | The Oldsmobile Jetfire Turbo Rocket is the first production passenger car to use a turbocharger. | |
| 1965 | Turbocharging has become common place on petrol driven racing engines in the USA. | |
| 1975 | Porsche's legendary 911 Turbo is born |  |
| 1976 | A 2 litre turbo Saab achieves the performance of a normal 3 litre version. | |
| 1978 | Renault completes its first
full Grand Prix year as a turbocharged contender, heralding the start of
the formula 1 turbo era with its twin turbo 1 half litre V6 engine. Meanwhile,
Buick, Saab and Mercedes bring turbocharging to a volume car production.
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| 1981 | The U.K leading Turbo Engineer, Geoffrey Kershaw forms Turbo Technics, which rapidly establishes itself as the market leader in performance car turbo design and manufacture. | |
| 1980s-1990s | Turbo's become commonplace
on both petrol and diesel engine car- to the point where there are well
over three quarters of a million turbocharged vehicles on British roads
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